Woodworking Made Simple for Woodworkers

Educating and woodworking are two very separate expertise. That’s one thing I realised once we began making our movies. The large distinction is, you"ll be able to’t work on auto pilot when you reveal. Every little thing needs to be deliberate, virtually exaggerated so it may be replicated by these watching. As I work now I speak to myself, asking what’s occurring. It’s helped me to grow to be far more acutely aware of how I’m doing issues, and why. This was helpful once I was first trying to clarify the best way to flatten boards by hand. It’s not straightforward to point out what’s happening with a person board, however after a lot self dialogue I realised I used to be approaching with the identical steps ninety% of the time. These type of patterns emerge so much if you begin to search for them. Predictable Errors One other sample or behavior that I’ve discovered I do, got here up once I was flattening a variety of skinny lengths. When t...

Hand software woodworkers can get by with a minimal of instruments. However, it doesn"t matter what type of woodworking you do, beginning and sticking with precision devices makes life in your store a lot simpler. The perfect place to start out? A excessive-high quality 12″ mixture sq., just like the Starrett within the middle. On this collection, I’ve coated instruments for standardization, instruments for measuring and instruments for precision. Now, it’s time to deliver all of it along with a number of suggestions for totally different sorts of woodworking. How a lot accuracy you want depends upon the sort of woodworking that you simply do. Keep in mind that for lots of of years, woodworkers obtained away with few or no measuring instruments, but nonetheless produced amazingly correct work. How? It’s as a result of they relied on different instruments like story sticks, setup items, and patterns and used them repeatedly and correctly. Utilizin...

Within the October, 2017 problem of Widespread Woodworking, web page 10, I answered a query from a reader regarding how to deal with paint on an exterior door that was starting to raise on the cross-grain joints the place water was in a position to get in and work its approach beneath. This impressed one other reader to ask how to take away black stains on his clear-completed exterior door (a minimum of one coat of polyurethane) and stop them from recurring. Right here’s what I responded. Right here’s an image of the outside door with the black stains the reader needs to take away. To get rid of the black stains you’ll want to strip or sand off the end. Stripping is often simpler, however the polyurethane could also be deteriorated sufficient in order that sanding is simpler. Most strippers ought to work OK however they could be sluggish. The quickest appearing will embrace methylene chloride listed on the can. Slower appearing will embrace n-methyl pyrroli...

Greene & Greene (G&G) breadboard ends are by no means flush with the sting or prime of a desk prime.  This proud look is then capped with a polished Ebony spline embedded in a mortise between the breadboard finish and the desk prime infield. The spline profile is lifted (typically referred to as a cloud carry) to intensify the proud look of the breadboard finish relative to the infield.  Moreover, the spline is pillowed to soften the sides of the spline.  This look can simply be achieved through the use of a clamping jig with a profile that a prime bearing bit can comply with.   Construction: The clamping jig is product of widespread ironmongery shop elements. You’ll want: (1) Aluminum bar inventory 15” x ⅝” x ⅛”, (2) three” lengthy ¼” x 20 tpi bolts (2) ¼” x 20 tpi feminine threaded knobs (2) ¼” fender washers (2) ½” compression springs (1) 7-½” x 15...

I’ve loved building Arts & Crafts furnishings for a variety of years. The look of the quarter-sawn oak after ending has all the time been a robust promoting level – a widespread strategy is a historic ending course of referred to as fuming. In a nutshell, the thought is to show the completed piece of furnishings to the fumes of ammonia. The tannins within the wood react to the fumes and darken. Fairly cool. But as you’ll discover within the photograph above, the ammonia jug has a cranium and crossbones on it! Sure, the ammonium hydroxide within the answer degree required to get tannins to react will blind, you, burn your lungs and extra. Not cool. Dale Barnard additionally loves building Arts & Crafts furnishings and he’s carried out his homework on the advantages and deficits of fuming. Within the video under he talks about each and presents some recommendation and options. I do know I agree together with his outcomes and I feel you"ll t...

(Saint Paul, February 21, 2018)-The American Association of Woodturners (AAW) is happy to announce that its Board of Administrators has rededicated Woodturning FUNdamentals, AAW’s digital publication for brand spanking new and starting woodturners, and appointed John Kelsey as its new editor. The web periodical will proceed to assist newer turners construct foundational woodturning experience and expertise, serving as an authoritative, sensible, and pertinent information to studying the artwork and craft of woodturning. The editorship of American Woodturner, AAW’s journal, stays unchanged. Kelsey will produce 4 points of Woodturning FUNdamentals throughout 2018. He succeeds Linda Ferber, who based Woodturning FUNdamentals and served as its editor since its inception. The transfer frees crucial AAW employees to focus on different initiatives and programming. Kelsey, based mostly in Pennsylvania, is a journalist specializing in crafts and design. In his lengthy pro...

Over the previous couple of weeks, I’ve made a number of posts about measuring instruments in the collection Precision Devices for Woodworkers. The aim of the collection is to introduce the concept of precision by way of establishing requirements for accuracy with a couple of excessive-high quality devices and to check your whole measuring instruments towards them. It’s a easy principle: In the event you begin with a number of high quality instruments and ensure the different measuring instruments you’ve chosen are examined or calibrated to your requirements then you"ll be able to seize any tape, ruler or sq. in the store and belief them. A massive collection like this takes a little bit of time to put collectively. Months in the making, in this case. Time spent has been doing analysis, testing and searching again at private experiences. Taking over a collection like this comes with one thing of a bonus of types. Alongside the method, I took ...

You should use a router to joint two boards at as soon as. This can be a actually useful trick in case you don’t have an extended-mattress jointer otherwise you don’t have a jointer at all, and also you’re working with actually lengthy inventory. The trick is to rout each boards at the identical time, so the sides mirror one another. Bowed or not, they’ll all the time match tightly. To set this trick up, mill three spacer blocks to eleven/sixteen in. thick. Clamp the boards to a pair of sawhorses with the spacers between them. Chuck a three/four-in. bit in your router. Clamp the information board so the bit takes an equal quantity off each boards, about 1/32 in. Experience the router tightly towards the guideboard, eradicating the spacers as wanted. Any deviation or wandering from the router shall be mirrored on the other board, offering an ideal match. – This trick first appeared in American Woodworker.  thirteen; thirteen; thirte...

Lately I wanted to set up two thumb screws into a makeshift fence that was meant for my petite desk noticed. By threading a gap within the picket fence I used to be in a position to present my hardware of selection (thumb screws) enough buy to connect the brand new fence to the one provided by the producer. This technique additionally allowed me to loosen and tighten the fence as wanted, and even dismantle it sometimes with ease. How to achieve taping wood is the topic of this submit. Once I lately wanted to connect an improved auxiliary fence to the brief aluminum fence of my Proxxon desk noticed, I had two choices: To make use of wood screws and washers, or to deploy thumb screws. Utilizing a widespread wood screw would require me to seize a screwdriver each time I would like to reposition or disconnect the auxiliary fence. However with a thumb screw, this course of can be a lot simpler. With simply half a twist to the left, the thumbscrew can be unfastened sufficient so ...